Milena Carbone invited me to see her newest exhibtion at her Carbone Gallery – The Scale of Love.
“The Scale of Love” is a new installation of the former “Nine Levels Of Love” exhibition showed at Noir Wen City during autumn 2020 (read here).
Milena write on her website: “The exhibition presents nine states of love as expressed in ancient Greek, from fusional love “pothos” to universal love “agape”. Love is a life force that connects us to spirituality. This is why the paintings are installed in a setting evoking antique temples, Christian cathedrals or Buddhist symbols. This is a permanent exhibition at The Carbone Gallery.”
Milena Carbone – The Scale of Love – Impressions (1)
As Milena wrote she installed kind of a cathedral for “The Scale of Love“. With the environment set to “midnight” the room has a contemplative atmosphere. The 9 pictures are quite large and almost each picture is presented in a seperate room, giving it enough room to develop. You can sit down and look at it.
I was not familiar with any scale of love. Milena listed them on her website:
Pothos – possessive love
Mania – passion love
Eros – flesh love
Philia – friendship love
Storgè -tender love
Harmonia – harmonious love
Eunoïa – compassionate love
Charis – unreserved love
Agape – universal love
Pornaia – bestial love (not included in the exhibition)
Each picture of the exhibtion expresses one of the state.
Milena Carbone – The Scale of Love – Impressions (2)
Milena always has accompanying texts in her exhibitions. There’s the “speech of Aristophane” that ends with the lines: “Our species can only be happy under one condition, and tat is to fulfill its love desire, for every to meet their other half, and this to return to their original nature.“
And there’s the “Scale of Love”….: “When we love, from the moment we are born until perhaps the instant we die, we participate in the ballet of the eintire universe towards the eternal return of the one. I see in this neither good nor evil, the two being linked like everything else, but as a river, or clock, or wave“
Milena Carbone – The Scale of Love – Impressions (3)
Milena Carbone (mylena1992) is a French artist and is in Second Life since mid 2019. She discovered its artistic potential and since then has devoted all her free time to creation, associating, as in real life, images and texts: “Milena Carbone is a fiction in which, as in any artistic work, biographical and imaginary elements are mixed.” Her creative process is iterative: some of her images inspire her stories and these stories modify the development of the image, which itself transforms the story.
Thank you for another great exhibition, Milena!
Website about the exhibition “The Scale of Love”
https://sites.google.com/view/thecarbonegallery/exhibitions/the-scale-of-love?authuser=0
Landmark to The Carbone gallery – exhibition “The Scale of Love”
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woiler/177/175/3301
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Serena
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Pontypridd/69/182/22
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noir%20Wen/243/203/32
Milena Carbone’s Flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/milenacarbone/
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Serena
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Pontypridd/69/182/22
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